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Secret Service Wants a Fake White House to Help Protect the Real One
NYT ^ | 17 Mar 2015 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR

Posted on 03/17/2015 7:42:08 AM PDT by shove_it

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To: shove_it

Next they’ll want to build a cardboard replica of Rock Ridge...


41 posted on 03/17/2015 8:19:26 AM PDT by SelmaLee
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To: FirstFlaBn
The federal gubermint couldn’t build a two seater outhouse for $8 million if the hole was already dug.

Post of the day.

It seems to me that a mock up with which to run scenario drills on "what to do in case of a perimeter breach" presupposes that somebody is going to breach the perimeter. It is a plan that expects failure.

42 posted on 03/17/2015 8:22:28 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: shove_it

Not worth the time or money.


43 posted on 03/17/2015 8:29:16 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (You know it's bad when you actually wish that someone would replace your senators with horses.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Plus, it would be a big pay and benefits increase to the ex-military types who would be hired.

Put up some guard towers and barbed wire, like they use at prisons.


44 posted on 03/17/2015 8:32:19 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: shove_it

There’s an upside-down Whitehouse thay can use in Wisconsin Dells.


45 posted on 03/17/2015 8:33:10 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: shove_it

Great idea Libs. Then we ought to have a 3rd. White House as a decoy for the second one.


46 posted on 03/17/2015 8:59:51 AM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: shove_it

Then John Kerry can drop by and toss a replica of his Purple Heart over the replica White House fence.


47 posted on 03/17/2015 9:00:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: shove_it

My my... so this is why they’re screwing up?

LOL

This is as bad as, “My dog ate my homework.”

Do your jobs you idiots.

A mock-up of the White House won’t stop drunk driving.
It won’t help guard entry points that every agent should know is there.
It won’t stop people from jumping the fence and running into the White House unchallenged.

This is nothing more than more proof of incompetence.


48 posted on 03/17/2015 9:04:48 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Maybe the secret service could get some “job training” at the new federal job-training center in ferfuson MO.


49 posted on 03/17/2015 9:06:27 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: shove_it

This is the kind of ridiculous thing that happens when Washington treats tax revenues as their own slush fund.


50 posted on 03/17/2015 9:17:43 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: imardmd1

sounds good, but they can’t even protect the real one.


51 posted on 03/17/2015 9:20:52 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: shove_it

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to hire designated drivers for the Secret Service?


52 posted on 03/17/2015 9:21:56 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: shove_it

This is silly. All they need to do is continue making the Secret Service more diverse. They need more transsexuals, gays, undocumented “workers”, and so on.


53 posted on 03/17/2015 9:25:00 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Slyfox

If common sense were dollars govt would have far fewer problems.


54 posted on 03/17/2015 9:27:43 AM PDT by ully2
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To: shove_it

Oddly enough, under other presidents the Secret Service has had little trouble protecting the White House ..

And then Bam-Bam comes along ...


55 posted on 03/17/2015 9:29:07 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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They can't figure out how to do their jobs inside the real White House that they need an exact copy in which to learn how to lock a front door?

That's right.

You can't just have a door with a lock on it to show agents how to lock a door ... you have to have a mock up of the whole damn White House.

While they're at it the SS can do a mock up of a South American whore house... with real whores. As a training exercise - of course... They can point to it and tell new agents, "Do not go there when you're on the clock"...

56 posted on 03/17/2015 9:41:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Gore: Punish those who buck 'accepted science' as was done to Galileo Galilei -freeper Darksheare)
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To: shove_it

How come they could protect the White House up until 2009?

Question is, what changed that now the White House cannot be protected?


57 posted on 03/17/2015 9:50:49 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: shove_it

It’s for Secret Service agents to practice drunken driving around.


58 posted on 03/17/2015 10:42:08 AM PDT by Thud
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To: shove_it

The current Wite House is occupied by FAKE/


59 posted on 03/17/2015 11:05:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“Question is, what changed that now the White House cannot be protected?”

See reply #30


60 posted on 03/17/2015 12:16:25 PM PDT by shove_it (old Old Guardsman)
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